Quotes About Society

I met over a hundred preteens who told me their stories. I asked them how they felt about their femininity in today's society. I wanted to know how they dealt with their self-image at a time when social media is so important, and they have access to so much information and so many images.

We live in a media saturated world. I'm sure artists of the past would have dealt with it in just the same way. If you're in the business of communication and images, then if you ignore the media-sphere you're just cutting off your own foot. It's just daft.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of problems is true imagination. So let's not imagine that racism is gone, extinguished, because it's not. We are seeing this in the top levels of the political arena, and we are seeing it very, very plainly.

I can't imagine having a conversation about 'Celebrity Big Brother' in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.

Who says what is the right way and what isn't? That is some imagined social construct that people made up to feel okay about being average.

Freedom is the one value conservatives place above all others, yet time and again, their ideal of freedom ignores the growing imbalance of power in our society that's eroding the freedoms of most people.

The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.

America is immature as a nation, and part of the reason why 'Hung' is a hit show is because it deals with that immature side of the male brain where we are kind of comparing ourselves to the rest of the world.

When Barack Obama was elected, it immediately brought out all the differences in society.

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

I'm very interested in getting inside the heads of people society discards, people on the fringe, especially immigrant kids. We dismiss them without getting into details of who they are.

I don't know the right number of immigrants to let in.

Much like the leaders of some European countries, Democrats believe that the more immigrants a country takes in, the better off that country becomes and the more altruistic it appears.

Amnesty is not the answer as it will only encourage more illegal immigrants to enter.

That's what this country is. It's made up of immigrants.

The illegal immigrants are like termites. They are eating the grain that should go to the poor; they are taking our jobs.

But then I came to the conclusion that no, while there may be an immigration problem, it isn't really a serious problem. The really serious problem is assimilation.

I live in Arizona. I think the Hispanic people are amazing. I think when people talk about illegal immigration... it does them a disservice.

There's a huge cost that comes with illegal immigration.

The countries where you have the most fear of immigrants are the countries where you have the least immigration.

There's an immigration problem in every country that has money, in that people there have a problem with immigration.

Immigration is not going to be a 'side issue' in 2016 - it is the issue.